Read Apple hard drive -

[Bob Goodwin]

Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> On Monday 11 February 2008, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>   
>>     I have a hard drive removed from my daughters Power Mac G4 plugged
>>     into an F-8 computer.  fdisk sees it as /dev/sdb but that's about as
>>     far is it goes, nothing relative to file type, etc.
>>
>>     Is it possible to get a directory listing or extract any data from
>>     it in the Fedora computer.  I suspect not, but thought I would ask?
>>
>>
>>     Thanks.
>>
>>     Bob Goodwin
>>     
>
> type  "parted /dev/sdb print"   fdisk supports only dos labels  parted 
> supports all disk labels.
>
>
> Dennis
>   

Ok, that seems to work.

    parted /dev/sdb print
    Model: ATA ST380024A (scsi)
    Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0GB
    Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
    Partition Table: mac

    Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name             Flags
     1      512B    32.8kB  32.3kB               Apple                
     2      32.8kB  61.4kB  28.7kB               Macintosh            
     3      61.4kB  90.1kB  28.7kB               Macintosh            
     4      90.1kB  119kB   28.7kB               Macintosh            
     5      119kB   147kB   28.7kB               Macintosh            
     6      147kB   410kB   262kB                Macintosh            
     7      410kB   672kB   262kB                Macintosh            
     8      672kB   934kB   262kB                Patch Partition      
     9      934kB   80.0GB  80.0GB  hfs+         Untitled             

    Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary.

I don't know how to interpret it yet, it appears to be a list of 
partitions?  So many?

At any rate I can see some of her image files and gthumb is happy to 
display them full screen.  Another interesting project rears its head!

Bob Goodwin